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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We're having lots of fun in here aren't we. Brad?
Together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our own opinion of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about if you have cold hands
or hand arthritis, you will love this.
- Yes.
- This is something we just discovered.
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- So this is very cool, it's a rechargeable hand warmer.
- Ooh, yeah.
- First off, it's very stylish
and I just happened upon this.
I was looking for something else.
I saw it on Amazon and it just struck me.
One, it was rechargeable.
'Cause you've seen those other packs.
Where people infuse them?
Like for deer hunting,
where you have to - Oh, right.
Where you shake 'em up.
I think we use 'em for football games and stuff
to keep your hands warm.
And they work pretty good,
but you know you throw 'em away.
Sometimes I leave them in my mitts and then a year later
I find it and it's all stale and what not.
But these are, these are handy.
- These are handy and--
- No pun intended. (laughs)
- Yeah and they have very good ratings at 4.8 stars.
So they didn't have any low ratings.
And it's $25.99 so I thought it was reasonable.
I mean I almost think you need to get two of 'em.
But it only takes two to three hours to charge
and it lasts four to eight hours,
depending on what setting you have it on.
'Cause it actually it goes low, medium and high.
- Sure, right.
- Brad likes it really warm.
- I like it on the high one.
We've had these on for about an hour now.
And 'cause it's winter right now and my hands are,
I got that cold hand syndrome in the winter time
and this feels great.
- Yeah, and I actually don't like it
when it gets all the way to the top, hot heat,
that's just too much for me.
They warmed up very fast, didn't they?
- Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
- Like in 30 seconds,
you can start to feel the heat already.
I have cold hands, like Brad
and I come in and I see patients in the morning
and my hands don't warm up for several hours.
And it just, you know every time I have to touch 'em
and do palpation and stuff like that,
they're just freakin' out.
So I'm going to be using this prior,
my patients are gonna enjoy this so.
- Otherwise, you gotta go
put your hands under warm water you know at the best.
- And even that doesn't work.
It doesn't keep you know,
I mean it works for a little bit, but it doesn't.
- Well you can't be washing your hands for 10 minutes.
- Yeah, right, right.
- You gotta get to work.
- So it also works well for arthritis.
In fact, I'm gonna show you how to warm up your hands
and I'm gonna show you
just a basic litany of exercises you can do.
- Ooh, litany.
- Yeah, I thought I'd throw in a new word there.
Of exercises you can do for wrist and fingers.
So warm it up and you can just, you can grasp it
like this even if you're just using one.
You can grab like this and then go like this,
and warm up each finger.
- Yeah, little isometrics kind of thing.
- And in fact, you can start doing
the wrist range and motion while you're grasping on to this.
So, yeah, you can show single there Brad.
You can also, I'm gonna do well,
so we're gonna do wrist flexion extension.
- Oh yeah.
- Yup, and then we're gonna go do ulnar deviation
and radial deviation which is up and down,
if your thumb is up and, you know pointed up.
- Right, gonna do a little hitchhiker.
- Yup.
And then a little circumduction.
- Oh, circumduction.
- There we go.
- You've been working on the--
- The lingo.
- Yeah, the dictionary, the whatever you call that other,
- And usually five, five repetitions
- Five - five repetitions are fine.
- Anything to get things moving in the fingers and the wrist
is that circulation is gonna follow up and things
are gonna, it's gonna just augment the--
- Well you wanna keep the motion too.
- Oh right.
- 'Cause you tend to start losing motion in your hands
when you get arthritis.
All right, so now we're gonna start
with some exercises.
Brad, or I mean Mike you might want to watch us
a little closer here on this one.
So, I'm gonna first do a thumb to each finger
and that's actually circumduction of the thumb,
is of the thumb joint is what we're doing.
So going to the tip of each finger.
You can do that five times.
Now you can reverse it too.
You can go back, if you don't wanna just keep going
in the same direction.
- And this is really functional too.
If you're having a hard time with grabbing keys
or if you like to knit or sew,
this can help you with that as well.
- Right.
Next one, I wanted you to get a little thumb flexion
and so you're just gonna go across
and touch the fifth finger there basically.
- The pinkie?
- The pinkie, yup.
So you're not going around, like this,
you're going across, sliding it
so it's just a little bit different of joint.
- If you have, if you start to get sore muscles,
you get a cramp, you're just gonna,
loosen it up. - you may have to
shake it out.
- Do some massage in there with the other hand.
- Next one, you're gonna go table top to claw.
- Ooh, the claw.
- Table top to claw, that's claw.
- It's like playing with my grandkids.
The claw!
- Yeah, that's right.
Yup, here comes the claw.
And then you can do full grip
where you squeeze it all the way
and you try to take the tips of the fingers
and put 'em in the crease there of your hand.
Full grip. - That can be hard.
That part about getting the fingers down in there.
If you cannot, just keep working it
and after a number of repetitions, it should improve.
- Yeah, sometimes you have to work each individual joint
and stretch 'em a little bit.
You know you put your finger
right below the joint line there and work it
and work it and work it.
- And then sometimes after that I'll have my patients
after they do the individual
and they still have a hard time,
you can take the other hand and--
- Give a little pressure, right
- And envelope it and you know, be gentle, repetition
and they'll loosen up.
- So five times again.
And the final one is finger abduction.
You're just go ahead, just go ahead
and spreading the fingers out
and bringing 'em back together again.
- Not the Spock.
Can you do the Spock?
- I can do the Spock.
- Can ya'?
- Yup.
- I can only, I can do it right hand,
but my left hand that doesn't work.
But otherwise I can do--
- Isn't that interesting?
You know it's just weird how the body works like that.
- Can you do this too then?
- Oh, I can on this hand.
- Can you do it on the other one?
- And you can feel it.
No, my left hand has got issues.
- You do have problems there. (laughing)
- Yeah. (slapping)
It's got better circulation in my right hand.
- Alright, so we'll have a link below,
just a cool device, you know we happened upon it
and it's gonna be one of our favorite things we use
from now on I think, Brad.
- Are we gonna show this ball?
- Oh yeah, sorry you wanted to show that too.
- You can get now. - Oh yeah.
- I was at a store, it was a craft store.
I was buying something for my mom for her knitting
and I saw this here.
It was only a couple bucks and I squeezed it.
Watch what happens.
It's squishy and I thought this is so needed.
It's entertaining, it feels good on your fingers.
It has some good texture and if you're gonna work some,
you know if you can get your motion
and you want to do a little strengthening,
but not too aggressive.
This is nice and the tactile,
of course feedback - of course, we can't
help you find one of 'em, 'cause we don't know. (laughs)
- Well no, but I betcha you could get one online
or like I said you look at stores when you come out
the exit there where you're paying.
That's where they have this stuff.
- Well I will show this one, Brad.
This is a "CanDo", let's see what it's called.
"Digi-Extend n' Squeeze"
We'll put a link down below.
- That's gonna cost a little more than one of these.
- Now what's nice about this is you can squeeze it
and they have actually different intensities.
- Right.
- Some are easier.
- They call that durometer.
- Is it really?
- Yup.
- So you can squeeze it
which strengthens the finger flexors,
but you can also work on extension at the same time.
- Which is nice.
- So yeah, it's really nice.
So you can work both ways and you know,
you wanna keep those fingers as strong as possible
'cause that'll take some of the stress off the joints.
- We should do one of these with the clay
or you know that stretchy stuff that the OTs use,
but you can do it with clay too.
That'll be another video.
- There we go.
Remember Brad and I can fix just about anything.
- Except for
- A broken heart.
- Buh, boom boom.
- I'm thinking this is.
- That is not a heart.
- But it is so cool.
- All right, take care. - All right.
Bye.
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